The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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